Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 8
Sea otters, sea urchins and kelp are another trophic cascade.
Who acts: Sea otters · What happens: be · To what, where: trophic cascade
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea otters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 otters | compound |
| 2 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cascade | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 urchins | punct |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 urchins | compound |
| 5 | urchins | urchin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 otters | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kelp | cc |
| 7 | kelp | kelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 otters | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cascade | cop |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 cascade | det |
| 10 | trophic | trophic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cascade | amod |
| 11 | cascade | cascade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cascade | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sea otters and sea urchins and kelp | another trophic cascade | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:8.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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